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Crime and Punishment Part I, Chapters I-V
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment Part I, Chapters I-V

"Will I really do it?"

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Jeremy Anderberg
Aug 18, 2024
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Hello, readers!

This week we kicked off our reading of Crime and Punishment with a crash course in Dostoyevsky’s style and intense characterization. Not much happened, but we did meet most of our main characters and got deep into Raskolnikov’s psyche. Dostoyevsky is awfully wordy, but also gives us one of the most probing and emotionally intense portrai…

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